Avian influenza continues to threaten to become a worldwide pandemic. The virus appears to have arisen in China and spread to neighboring countries. China would be the center of vaccination and containment strategies if ...

In twelfth-century northern England, the historical imagination was dominated by the region's most powerful and most popular saint. Both the bishops of Durham and the priors of the Benedictine convent attached to Durham ...

These papers were written for a History 498 class, the Senior Seminar. The class was based on Utopian and Dystopian novels from the Industrial Age: Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, ...

The diction of truth in Homer reveals a conceptual system that distinguishes between the verifiable truth of everyday life (et- words), the certain future truth of prophets and gods (nemertes), the undistorted communication ...

My research examines literature on immigrant adaptation processes, and how language use in the 1946 Hokubei Hochi, Japanese immigrant newspaper in Seattle, indicates the dialogue of acculturation and enculturation in the ...

This group of seven students admirably traversed the vast resources of a variety of libraries on campus to produce two excellent projects, a written report and a DVD film. Their essays clearly reflected their growth through ...

Through a careful examination of floods in the Puyallup Valley in 1933 and 1977, and the social, cultural, and economic changes that connect them, this essay traces a gradual progression from completely anthropocentric ...

This paper provides a narrative history of the Native American fishing rights protests which occurred during the 1960s and 1970s at and around Frank’s Landing, Washington. These highly visible and frequently dramatic ...

The idea of "nutrition" as we understand it is relatively recent. Prior to the 19th century, food was more or less just food, with the major concern of nutriment being quantity. But with developments in the fields of organic ...

Despite rapid economic growth, huge slums persist in Mumbai, India. This paper examines the underlying reasons, looking in particular at Asia's, and possibly the world's, largest slum, Dharavi. In a collusion between India's ...

Justice Denied: Impunity During and After the Salvadoran Civil War is an examination of three infamous atrocities of the Salvadoran civil war and attempts to bring the those responsible to justice. The Salvadoran civil war ...

Osaka has long been a hub of labor and industry in Japan. The Kamagasaki district near the famed Osaka Loop Line became the epicenter of day labor, even originating its own type of labor market – yoseba. Formally renamed ...

Since the 1960’s, Dominican bachata music has been associated with the poorest, blackest sectors of Dominican society. Recently, however, young Dominican music groups in New York City, most famously Aventura, have popularized ...

This paper examines the failure of the attempt to privatize the water utilities in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. A large popular uprising against dramatically rising costs for water was not effectively managed by a weak ...

This paper examines how humor broaching the topic of slavery can
move beyond poor taste into savvy critiques of how historical narratives are
formed. Two neo-slave narratives drive the exploration: Charles Johnson’s
Oxherding ...

My research examines the popular reactions to the 1973 PBS series An American Family, the first reality television show, as a lens to explore the prevailing attitudes of family and gender in 1973. The 1970s were a particularly ...

Japan is a country undergoing a crisis of aging. This study examines how biracial celebrities are perceived in Japan in an attempt to discover whether that country will accept immigration as a way to solve its population crisis.

This study analyzes and compares languge contact relations between Russian and Estonian and Lithuanian. The author examines acoustic and phonological cues which may play a role in a speaker's use of foreign words and morphemes.

The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, first published in 1679, has been hailed as the most influential guide to painting ever produced in China, yet there is little evidence in support of this assertion. A close ...